Illegal Immigrants

Where are America’s investigative journalists? There are tremendous consequences and effects of the illegal immigration disaster that seriously threatens the very existence of this country and our government leaders and the media have not been discussing them with the citizens of the United States.

Illegal entrants crossing the border between America and Mexico have been doing so for several hundred years, but their numbers have escalated substantially in the past 25 years or more. Though many illegal aliens cross the border searching for employment not all of them are Mexicans, and some of the Mexicans are leaving their home country because they are wanted there as criminals. A U.S. government Inspector General report states that between 2001 and the first half of 2005, there were 605,210 illegal entries who were Other Than Mexicans (OTM) that were arrested for violating U.S. immigration laws. Of special note and concern, is the fact that 308,657 of those captured OTM’s were released because the government didn’t have beds and detention facilities to accommodate that large number of detainees. They were released back into the general population to await a hearing on their deportation. If any were terrorists, I’m sure they didn’t show up for the hearing. The government knows nothing about the backgrounds of those they released. The decision to release or not is based on the government’s ability to house them not on the risk they present to America. If the Border Patrol has captured 605,210 as stated above, one has to wonder how many OTM’s were not captured when they crossed the U.S. border. And what is the actual number of OTM’s if what Dr. Virginia Deane Abernathy, Chairman of the Population-Environment Balance at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine estimate is correct that illegal entries into America are 7.2 million a year.

Government officials and the media usually use the figure that 12 million illegal Mexicans exist in America, but they really do not know how many are here. Other estimates put the figure closer to 20 million. However, neither the government nor the media offer any estimates for the number of illegal OTM’s in America. There is generally little or no discussion in the media of the OTM’s. The media, the affected states, local politicians, and our Congress are concerned primarily with Mexican illegal aliens, and well they should be, and the impacts those folks are having on America’s hospitals, schools and jobs. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans since the Reagan Administration have made any serious efforts to resolve the illegal entry problems because the Democrats see those entries as potential Democratic voters and the Republicans see them as cheap labor and enhanced profits for business.

In this article I will focus only on the most serious threat that some illegal aliens present to our way of life and the continued safety and existence of America. I am referring to crime and terrorism, but the shear numbers of the honest Mexican illegal entries are a clear and present danger themselves to our education systems, American culture, national economy, disease threats and our infrastructure. Make no mistake about it, each one of those impacts are serious threats to this country, but there is a far more serious and immediate threat that is present right now from the criminal aliens and the thousands of OTM’s that our government cannot track and has no clue as to what they might be doing.

In 1980, our Federal and state penal facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens, but now the most recent figures are in the hundreds of thousands with 17% being held in Federal prisons, 27% in state prisons, and 56% in local jails. The Federal government reimburses jurisdictions at the state and local levels that are incarcerating criminal illegal aliens. That alone is costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars.
Some of those criminal illegal aliens were arrested numerous times. The average was eight arrests per illegal alien in California. In Los Angeles alone, 95% of the outstanding warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens, and 67% of the outstanding fugitive felony warrants are for illegal aliens. A confidential California Department of Justice study reported that the one street gang had a membership of 20,000 illegal aliens. That gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia in California prisons on drug distribution, extortion and drive-by assassinations. Another California gang that uses murder and racketeering to control its drug market was estimated to be approximately 60% illegal aliens. The report specifies that in 2005, Federal drug seizures were a total of 1,129,275 pounds of cocaine and 6,866,465 pounds of marijuana primarily from the southern border. Federal law enforcement estimates that only 10-30% of the illegal aliens are apprehended and only 10-20% of the drugs are seized! If they are seizing only 20% of the drugs entering the U.S. in California, then that means 80% are getting through. One can only imagine the astronomical implications of those figures if they were extrapolated for the illegal entries into Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Or what do you suppose is the collective impact of that amount of drugs might have on American citizens throughout the nation in terms of individual health, the impact to the medical care professions, taxpayers, law enforcement personnel, increased crime to pay for the purchase of those drugs and the criminal activity by those under the influence of drugs. How much crime is there in the United States that is a direct result of those drugs? Criminal immigration is not a victimless crime.

The implications of the millions of illegal aliens is a grave concern that will possibly destroy America if it is not resolved, and the criminal element of those illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America such as MS-13, a notorious Salvadorian gang that is alleged to inhabit 42 of our states; is certainly a high priority. Though, a higher priority of concern should be the thousands of OTM’s that are loose in the United States.

A 2005 Homeland Security Report stated that 850 people from countries of “special interest” were apprehended crossing our southern border. No one knows how many others successfully entered our country. Kenneth R. Timmerman wrote in Front Page Magazine in 2006 that a Homeland Security Report revealed that 45,008 OTM’s from countries on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terror (SST) or from countries that protected terrorist organizations and their members were released into America’s general public between 2001 and 2005 even though immigration officers could not confirm their identity. That means that these individuals from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, whose identities could not be verified and who could be working for terrorist groups, are today roaming the streets of America. The report cited a recent U.S. intelligence assessment indicating that “terrorist organizations… believe illegal entry into the U.S. is more advantageous than legal entry for operations reasons.”
At an April 6, 2006 hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, Rep. John Culberson (R, Tx) said he recently confirmed with FBI Director Robert Mueller that “a number of individuals from countries with al Qaeda connections are changing their identities. They’re changing their Islamic surnames for Hispanic surnames, adopting false Hispanic identities… and hiding among the flood of illegal aliens coming over our border and disappearing into the country.” In other words, the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t have a clue how many potential terrorists have gotten through our porous borders and have simply changed their names.

The radical Islamic Jihad (Arabic for Holy Struggle) of terrorism did not begin with the 9/11/2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It began on 11/4/79 in Tehran, Iran, when the U.S. Embassy and 52 hostages were seized and held for 444 days. Practically every year since then there have been attacks against Americans and their allies. In 1982, 30 U.S. citizens and other Western hostages were kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Terry Anderson was held for 2,454 days. On April 18, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon, 17 Americans and 46 others were killed by a car bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy by the Islamic Jihad. Also in Beirut on 10/23 that year Shiite suicide bombers detonated a truck bomb killing 241 marines at the airport. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut. And on 12/12 Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S Embassy in Kuwait City, Kuwait, killing 5 and injuring 80. On 9/20/1984, a truck exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex in East Beirut, Lebanon, killing 2 American and 22 others. In December of that year Kuwait Airways Flight 221 in Beirut was hijacked and diverted to Tehran. Two Americans were killed. On 4/12/1985, a restaurant frequented by Americans in Madrid, Spain, was bombed injuring 82 and killing 18 Spaniards. Then June 14, 1985, TWA Flight 847 in Beirut, Lebanon, was hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists. A U.S. Navy diver was executed in that incident. On October 7, in the same year, gunmen attacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and killed one U.S. tourist. The gunmen were linked to Libya. And on December 18, airports in Rome and Vienna were bombed killing 5 Americans and 15 others. This was also linked to Libya.

The terrorist attacks continued into 1986 on April 2, in Athens, Greece, when a bomb exploded on TWA Flight 840 killing 4 Americans and injuring 9. On April 5, Libyans bombed a disco in West Berlin, Germany, injuring hundreds and killing 2 Americans. On December 21, 1988, a Pan Am Boeing 747 flight blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Libya admitted responsibility 15 years later. In New York City on February 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the basement garage of the World Trade Center injuring 1,040 and killing 6 others. Militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted. In 1998, Ramzi Yousef, a probable Al-Qaeda, was also convicted in this terrorist attack. U.S. terrorists, Timothy McVeeigh and Terry Nichols collaborated and bombed the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168, including 19 children. On November 13, 1995, a car bomb exploded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at a U.S. military headquarters killing 5 U.S. servicemen. On June 25, 1996, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex killing 19 Americans and injuring hundreds of others. Thirteen Saudis and a Lebanese members of the Islamic Hezbollah were indicted for that attack. The terrorist attacks continued when on August 7, 1998, when truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania while injuring approximately 4,500. Then on October 12, 2000, the USS Cole, a navy destroyer was heavily damaged in port at Aden, Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed and the attack was linked to Osama bin Laden.

All this happened prior to the infamous attack on New York’s World Trade Center. Americans have been under attack by terrorists since 1979. Does anyone in the U.S. Congress or Homeland Security think those thousands of OTM’s are all here looking for jobs or are some of them here to kill American citizens. On 9/13/07, the media reported a government estimate that it would cost 94 billion dollars to deport all the illegal aliens should the government have the will and capability to do so. The inability to prevent illegal immigration has now mushroomed into a completely unmanagable, expensive and life threatening danger to the country.

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